M. S. Thompson

Purdue University West Lafayette — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

21h-index1.4kcitations145works10.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Astro and Planetary Science(102), Planetary Science and Exploration(101), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(17), Geological and Geochemical Analysis(13), Space Exploration and Technology(11)

Publications145 total

Solar wind neon storage in vesicles in space weathered lunar samples: Implications for neon behavior in planetary materials
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·2026Open Access
Data for 'Solar wind neon storage in vesicles in space weathered lunar samples: Implications for neon behavior in planetary materials'
Purdue University Research Repository·2026Open Access
Space Weathering: Clear with a Chance of Solar Wind and Micrometeoroid Showers
Elements·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples
Nature Geoscience·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
Space weathering effects in Bennu asteroid samples
Nature Geoscience·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Space Weathering Effects on Lizardite
2025Open Access
Using in situ Heating in the Transmission Electron Microscope to Probe the Retention of Implanted Solar Wind Gases in Lunar Samples
Microscopy and Microanalysis·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Sulfide minerals bear witness to impacts across the solar system
Nature Communications·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Revealing the Moon's Taurus‐Littrow Landslide via Integrated Analysis of Pristine Apollo 17 Soil Core 73001/2
Journal of Geophysical Research Planets·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
An overview of the petrography and petrology of particles from aggregate sample from asteroid Bennu
Meteoritics and Planetary Science·2025· 21 citedOpen Access
Space weathering and compositional stratigraphy of Apollo 17 double drive tube 73001/2
Meteoritics and Planetary Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples
Nature·2025· 44 citedOpen Access
Coordinated Analyses of Iron Nitride Minerals in Asteroid Samples
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2025
Presolar Grains and Organics in Mottled Samples from Asteroid Bennu
2025
Integrating Advanced Technologies to Characterize Subsurface Carbonate Systems
SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks·2025
Nanoscale reservoirs store solar wind-derived water on the lunar surface
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Analyzing the Mineralogy and Space Weathering Characteristics of the Finest Fraction in Apollo Core Sample 73002
Journal of Geophysical Research Planets·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Understanding the Effects of Micrometeoroid Bombardment on Graphite-rich Mercury Analogs through Laboratory Experiments and Electron Microscopy Analysis
The Planetary Science Journal·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Microscopic slickenside as a record of weak shock metamorphism in the surface layer of asteroid Ryugu
Meteoritics and Planetary Science·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by <scp>OSIRIS</scp>‐<scp>REx</scp>
Meteoritics and Planetary Science·2024· 132 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

T. J. Zega(19), L. P. Keller(18), Shogo Tachibana(13), P. A. Bland(12), H. A. Ishii(11), J. P. Bradley(10), Pierre-Marie Zanetta(10), Martin Lee(10), Luke Daly(10), Tomoki Nakamura(10), Tatsuaki Okada(10), Hisayoshi Yurimoto(10), D. S. Lauretta(9), T. Noguchi(9), Toru Matsumoto(9), Akira Miyake(9), Yohei Igami(9), Satoshi Hata(9), Yusuke Seto(9), Masaaki Miyahara(9)